Tag Archives: iPhone

AudioBoo – Mobile Web Friendly iPhone Podcasting

Posted on by

AudioBoo is a very slick iPhone app, mobile and desktop website. On the iPhone it integrates with the device’s voice recording capability allowing you to create and publish audio clips, called “Boos” with a single click. You can optionally include an image with your Boo. Boos are published on the AudioBoo web and mobile site and there are lots of ways to share Boos and add them to your mobile or desktop site. Options include a Flash-based embeddable player, WordPress … Continue reading →

iGoogle For the iPhone and Android. It’s Baack!

Posted on by

There was quite a bit of furor on the interwebs back in January when Google  killed the special version of the iGoogle personalized home page for the iPhone and Android devices. Google’s explanation at the time was that they wanted to provide a consistent experience across all devices. Which didn’t make much sense given the big Gs enthusiasm for cloud based web services running in advanced mobile web browsers as a replacement for installable apps. For the last five months … Continue reading →

A Mobile Carnival at mjelly

Posted on by

James Cooper at mjelly is hosting this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, a collection of the best recent blog posts on mobile topics from around the world. Featured are items on mobile web growth,  Android apps, iPhone multitasking, SMS marketing, the dangers of overly broad software patents, mobile commerce, mobiles for public service and safety, presence and the social graph and a mobile news roundup. Congratulations to Vero at  Taptu whose piece on the pricing brouhaha surrounding the new S60 Twitter … Continue reading →

Carnival of the mobilists 167 at London Calling

Posted on by

The Carnival this week is hosted by Andrew Grill at London Calling.  In honor of  the  G20 International Financial Summit, which Andrew calls the other important event besides the Carnival that’s happening this week in London, he’s grouped the posts by the author’s home country. This Carnival is an international affair with articles on the cost of mobile services in Africa  and on mobile opportunities in India and China.  Other items look at using the sensors in mobile phones with … Continue reading →

The iPhone Does NOT Drive 50% of US Mobile Traffic

Posted on by

The last couple of days has seen a flood of  headlines in the mainstream and tech press trumpeting  “iPhone Accounts For 50 Percent Of U.S. Mobile Web Traffic” or “iPhone Drives 50% Of U.S. Mobile Web Traffic“.  Sounds pretty amazing and cool for mobile web designers, right? I guess we can stop maintaining those 20 KB page size mobile sites targeted at funky feature phones and devote all our energies to mobile Ajax and the JavaScript rollover effects that play … Continue reading →

iPhone 3.0 – What’s it mean for Nokia and Palm?

Posted on by

At the iPhone OS 3.0 announcement today,  Apple reacted to its growing competition from S60 touch devices, Android and Palm Pre by announcing a massive upgrade. 3.0 will ship “this summer”  and a Beta is available today to all registered iPhone developers.  What Apple has done is to fill in  most of the feature gaps in the iPhone spec.  This is important.  While the iPhone design language and user interface have been head and shoulders above the competition since day … Continue reading →

Carnival of the Mobilists #163 at Golden Swamp

Posted on by

This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists (COTM) is hosted by Judy Breck at Golden Swamp.  Judy’s not only the host this week, she’s also the dynamo that keeps the Carnival running smoothly with a new edition appearing every Monday. She schedules hosts, reminds each week’s host when it’s their turn,  promotes the Carnival on the COTM mailing list and on Forum Oxford and maintains the Carnival’s website.  Thank you Judy for your great work, you have made the COTM one … Continue reading →

Google Mobile Book Search

Posted on by

Google continues to roll out new mobile products.  Monday it was Tasks, yesterday Latitude and today we have Google Mobile Book Search at books.google.com/m.  It’s an iPhonesque mobile interface into 1.5 million  public domain books that Google has scanned as part of its Book Search project. I heard about it first  from microflash on Twitter.  There’s an official announcement on the Inside Book Search blog. The new mobile interface lets you search  for and read any of  the 1.5 million … Continue reading →